Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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